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Describes brief strategic therapy, looking at its theory, applications, and techniques.

Product Description: BOOKS IN SPANISH

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In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language. Although communications emerging in therapy are ascribed to the mind's unconscious, dark side, they are habitually translated in clinical dialogue into the supposedly therapeutic language of reason and consciousness. But, Dr. Watzlawick argues, it is precisely this bizarre language of the unconscious which holds the key to those realms where alone therapeutic change can take place. Dr. Watzlawick suggests that rather than following the usual procedure of interpreting the patient's communications and thereby translating them into the language of a given psychotherapeutic theory, the therapist must learn the patient's language and make his or her interventions in terms that are congenial to the patient's manner of conceptualizing reality. Only in that way, he shows, can the therapist effectively bring about genuine changes and problem resolutions. Drawing on the work of Milton H. Erickson, he supports his findings with many (and often amusing) examples. This book, then, is a virtual introductory course to the grammar and language of the unconscious. (view table of contents)

Essays discuss the structure of human relationships, depression following stroke, hypnotherapy, schizophrenia, imaginary communication, self-reference, and ideological reality

FROM THE DUST JACKET: "ULTRA-SOLUTIONS: HOW TO FAIL MOST SUCCESSFULLY...NOW IN A NEW VOLUME, (AUTHOR PAUL WATZLAWICK) ..TURNS TO OUR STRIVINGS FOR ULTRA-SOLUTIONS--THOSE FINAL SOLUTIONS THAT DO AWAY WITH THE PROBLEM AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE. (A PERFECT ULTRA-SOLUTION LIES IN THAT OLD MEDICAL JOKE: 'THE OPERATION WAS SUCCESSFUL, BUT THE PATIENT DIED.') AS HE BEGINS THIS BOOK, THE AUTHOR MUSES ABOUT THE FATE OF MACBETH AT THE HANDS OF THE THREE WITCHES. THEIR STRATEGIES LED TO HIS DOWNFALL, AND--THOUGH MUCH REFINED DUE TO MODERN TECHNOLOGY--ARE IN FORCE TODAY. THE URGE FOR ULTRA-SOLUTIONS HAS BEEN WITH US SINCE UNRECORDED TIME, AND THE WITCHES ARE ALWAYS THERE TO OFFER SINISTER ENCOURAGEMENT." INCLUDES: TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR'S NOTE 1. SECURITY IS MORTALS' CHIEFEST ENEMY 2. TWICE AS MUCH IS NOT NECESSARILY TWICE AS GOOD 3. GOOD CAN BE BAD 4. THE (ALLEGEDLY) EXCLUDED MIDDLE 5. A 'CHAIN REACTION' OF KINDNESS? 6. NONZERO-SUM GAMES 7. BRAVE DIGITALIZED WORLD 8. 'I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOUA RE THINKING' 9. DISORDER AND ORDER 10. HUMANITY, DIVINITY, BESTIALITY 11. GLOOMY SUNDAY 12. IS IT THIS? BIBLIOGRAPHY

This multidisciplinary approach to the study of reality examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological 'realities' are constructed and views reality as invented rather than discovered

Examines the ways in which communication and disruptions of communication create and can create simultaneously present versions of reality, providing illustrative anecdotal accounts of related scientific, literary, and other subjects

Articles based on work in family therapy present a new way of conceptualizing and treating human problems which observes the immediate patterns of interaction in a problem situation and analyzes the attempted solutions. Bibliogs

Three prominent American therapists detail their theories and strategies for promoting human change and dealing with related psychological problems

Suggests that the styles and structures of contemporary interpersonal communication are responsible for many mental and behavioral disorders